Candolim Boys Home | Buy a Cow Scheme | Community Aid
From time to time we are asked to help fund medical expenses for children who have been injured or become ill and whose parents are unable to pay for the bandages, medicines etc. In addition we are prepared to fund operations on children where again there is no funding available. For example a three month old baby who needed an eye operation to save her sight.
We have also taken out to India seven wheelchairs that have been donated by well-wishers in the UK. These are in great demand as are all medical supplies such as bandages, gauze, rubber gloves etc but we are not permitted to take medicines into the country. We have funded specific projects to help another charity, also in Goa, who run a residential care home for children that are either orphans or whose parents are unable to care for them. A small school near Kerim in the north of Goa was discovered by two of our volunteers situated in the middle of the forest. The building measures approx 12 ft x 24 ft and has no windows and no electricity. Light is provided by keeping the door open! Nearly thirty children were being taught here with no desks and chalkboards that were worn out. The volunteers arranged for a local carpenter to make desks and new chalk boards which we funded as well as cooking facilities. In 2005 we went to Sri Lanka following the Tsunami. With limited money we were able to provide homes for four families, cooking facilities to some of the people who had lost theirs, sewing machines to two ladies so that they could restart work and food and clothing to as many families as we could afford.